By giririsss Go To Postvalidate?It's going to take some stars moving from west to east for it to swing to east is better, I reckon.
You've got 2 teams that are on historically good seasons. With amazing all time rosters. OKC would be tied for the lead in the East, but they're 3rd in the West.
Utah's season ISN'T surprising. They've been progressively getting better and better.
Portlands is surprisingly good. But houstons is surprisingly bad. So it's balanced.
The East is better. But i wouldn't say it's swingin that way in any major positive or in any major shift. Considering that the East was historically atrocious the last 2 years this had to happen.
What's surprising is how the West used to have 11 teams competing for the 8 play off spots but only have 9 this year.
But yeah there is no validation...
By Moris Go To PostLovingsteam, confess.Long live courtrivals
By vic Go To PostThe final piece that MEM needed in order to make a serious run for the 'ship:
Wait Memphis is not where KFC is from is it
By DY_nasty Go To Postlol we have a 7 game homestand starting tonightRooting for you guys to get that 5th seed.
By giririsss Go To PostBut thats just simply not true.Im sorry but it is true. He literally talked about it on a regular basis after his hiring. It was a large part as to why he was hired. Demps has always wanted to apply a slightly moderated pace and space style system to his team. Gentry sold him on his way of doing it. Demps argued that was why he and Monty would never be on the same page when Monty's firing was discussed. Gentry was brought in to implement a system and correct that core disagreement about how to use our roster. To fit players to specific roles Demps and Gentry thought they should.
I can't comment too much on the Jrue thing. But it might be a way to try and make sure the second unit isn't pure trash. It could be to spare Jrue going up against starters.
I don't think you can analyse "great units" on a team that just doesn't have any consistently healthy players. It's a false statistic. He has also been traditionally, very good at playing what ever works best. Not being stuck with rotations, being very flexible. So you guys have complaints, but history tells me the complaints are misdirected. You're reading the wrong thing out of what you see.
Also, it's going to take more than another year to turn the team as a whole around. It's going to be 2 or 3. They're in a bad situation money / picks wise IIRC.
The early results were very, very ugly. He has pulled back and adjusted some and began turning a blind eye in odd ways but that is still overall what is happening. Gentry has one general way of doing things and that is how it will be. And frankly, I am ok with that to an extent. My major problems have actually come in the areas he turns that blind eye too.
As to his lineups. It is telling that your default position is that Gentry is correct in all his decisions. Instead of actually trying to verify anything I said. Injuries don't explain why Jrue continues to come off the bench, why Cole gets more minutes in games like last night and often rivals Jrue's time spent with AD. Injuries don't excuse that. We are the only team in the league that puts their 2nd and 3rd best players on the bench and it is unclear by any metric why that continues to be. It hasn't been successful, clearly. You then have several examples of some questionable in game coaching decisions. His management of timeouts and late game situations is particularly troubling. The worst example was when he elected not to foul in a critical Rockets game and allowed them to run down the clock to 4 seconds. Then elected to run a full court set with 4 seconds and down by 1 point. We lost.
I am not blaming Gentry for all our problems, I am not dumb enough blame him for things out of his control. Likewise I have watched every Pelicans game, some more then once when I have late work to get done. Gentry is not without some serious question marks going forward.
still laughing when i think about the time the pels reupped eric gordon even though his injury prone ass was begging them to let him sign with phoenix
damn, we played like shit and put up our highest scoring quarter this season
court seats for philly games can't be higher than 70 bucks
court seats for philly games can't be higher than 70 bucks
First to 100 wins, no defense needed. Rambis really preaching KP getting his butt in the paint looks nice.
so the kia mvp ladder on nba.com hasn't mattered since the first two weeks of the season but LeBron at #2 is some fukboi shit
i mean the one time nobody is looking at the list you could put lillard up there or something, anything but that old tired shit
i mean the one time nobody is looking at the list you could put lillard up there or something, anything but that old tired shit
Whiteside Assist Alert!
By PSYCH! Go To Postdamn, we played like shit and put up our highest scoring quarter this seasonholy shit courtside seats are 68 bucks
court seats for philly games can't be higher than 70 bucks
By PSYCH! Go To Postholy shit courtside seats are 68 bucksLets go to philly!
love resting as if he's been through a ton of post season play over the years and his legs are tired
By PSYCH! Go To Postholy shit courtside seats are 68 bucks
How much do you think those were for Kobe's last game in Philly? 10 regular season games! More? Lol
By DY_nasty Go To PostI'm so afraid to compliment Kemba
looking at lebron giving a pregame speech surrounded by mozgov, delly, and sasha kawnnnnn
honestly lebron at this point we'd all be okay with a return to miami
honestly lebron at this point we'd all be okay with a return to miami
By Dark PhaZe Go To Postlooking at lebron giving a pregame speech surrounded by mozgov, delly, and sasha kawnnnnnThey got Wiltside now. #imovedon
honestly lebron at this point we'd all be okay with a return to miami
By vire Go To PostWhy are uncharted mp graphix so bad. :/nuaghty dog mp is always ugly. dunno why
By vire Go To PostWhy are uncharted mp graphix so bad. :/Resources man.
Knicks playing with good energy and Carmelo and KP going off on the Celts, but will it last considering IT2 can score whenever he wants? Also Knicks are going to limit KP's minutes since they play tomorrow.
Oh hey Rambis noticed Calderon ain't shit and benched him, now suddenly Knicks regained the lead. Maybe Calderon will finally be benched.
EDIT: LOL HE'S BACK IN
EDIT: LOL HE'S BACK IN
I'm surprised they called that on Smart, refs have let both team get away with worse. Dumb tech though.
